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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 13. november 2005 / Timeline November 13, 2005

12. November 2005, 14. November 2005

11/13/2005
Students Rebuffing Military Recruiters
More High Schoolers in State Opt Out of Lists
by Maria Sacchetti and Jenna Russell
The Boston Globe
More than 5,000 high school students in five of the state's largest school districts have removed their names from military recruitment lists, a trend driven by continuing casualties in Iraq and a well-organized peace movement that has urged students to avoid contact with recruiters.
The number of students removing their names has jumped significantly over the past year, especially in school systems with many low-income and minority students, where parents and activists are growing increasingly assertive in challenging military recruiters' access to young people.
Since 2002, under the federal No Child Left Behind law, high schools have been required to provide lists of students' names, telephone numbers, and addresses to military recruiters who ask for them, as well as colleges and potential employers. Students who do not wish to be contacted -- or their parents -- notify their school districts in writing.
In Boston, about 3,700 students, or 19 percent of those enrolled in the city's high schools, have removed their names from recruiting lists. At Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, 952 high school students, more than half the student body, ordered the school system not to give their names to the military this year.
Overall, approximately 18 percent of the public high school students eligible in Cambridge, Boston, Worcester, Lowell, and Fall River have opted to remove their names. Though no official national statistics are available, a group founded six months ago to raise awareness of the law said visitors to its website have downloaded 37,000 copies of a form that can be used to remove students' names from the recruiting lists.

11/13/2005
Humboldt vet battles military for toxics data
By David Whitney -- Bee Washington Bureau
http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/v-print/story/13854319p-14694184c.html
WASHINGTON - For 12 years between 1962 and 1974, the U.S. military conducted tests using live biological agents. Tugboats bobbing in the high seas off the Hawaiian Islands were sprayed with nerve gas and other agents and then were washed down with powerful decontaminants now suspected of being carcinogens.
On June 30, 2003, the Defense Department announced it was drawing to a close its investigation of Project SHAD, which was part of a larger top-secret test program called Project 112.
The test program was ordered in 1961 by former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.
The test agents included Sarin and VX nerve gases, E. coli bacteria, and other substances that cause Q fever and rabbit fever.
Similar tests were conducted on land, many at Fort Greeley, Alaska, as part of the project.

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